Beautifully captured the essence of the life of the people; complimented with adventure/thrill of white-water kayaking and finished off with conservationist message. Peak Documenting!!!
Fantastic Video and well done on your achievements!! I have travelled a bit in Nepal and loved every minute , the most gentle and friendly people . My souvenir I treasure the most is a yak bell which will forever remain in my mind . The sound of the "Yak Trains" and herders, Sherpa's and guides. I may get smashed by my next statement but I've seen similar in Africa where I live and Its easy for people to sit in their armchairs with their Tv's ,washing machines ,computers and jobs that earn big bucks and try to dictate to countries around the world on what they should and shouldn't do. Or a foreigner to visit places and try , as they would term it, help and assist without offering true workable alternatives to the betterment of local communities. Thank you for your production and may the river flow in peace.
It’s peak hypocrisy. I have seen westerners saying that Nepal shouldn’t build roads to the villages near Annapurna circuit because it ruined their experience. I mean, seriously? Regarding this documentary specifically, hydropower is the only source of energy for Nepal. Until recent projects, there used to be blackouts days and nights. How does a country progress without energy? Lectures usually come from people who are used to living in air conditioned rooms, driving big cars to transport a person and flushing clean drinking water down the toilet and whose source of energy is through burning fossil fuel.
@@induction7895 We have wild places in Australia that developers wanted to 'harness', but we stopped them. And it is not because we can afford to do so. Some wild places should remain so. Did you even watch the whole doco, or pay attention to what they were saying? Hydro can be done on a small-scale local area without environmental impact. But the planned Hydro is huge, will destroy cultural areas, cause extinction of species, will cause an increased carbon footprint, and will have most of the electricity going to India. Now THAT is peak hypocrisy. And besides, you chastise Alan for having the heart of a Nepali. But your talk is funny, because it seems like you are talking about yourself. I do not think you can understand what this story tells.
@@Roger-go6jc I have lived in Nepal and in west. I have lived in 20 hours of blackouts in Nepal, studied under candles, and have done all those things that you do when you don't have energy. In 21st century. And compared to most Nepalese I am relatively privileged. Nepal doesn't have coal to burn unlike Australia. Australia gets 23000 MW of energy just by burning coal. 2000 MW of gas. Nepal hardly produces 500 MW of hydropower and is still struggling with blackouts. Talk about carbon footprint. What is small scale hydropower? A small run of the river project that produces 10 MW in monsoon? What will that do? Neither do such projects produce substantial energy nor will they run throughout the year as rivers dry up during winter and summer. Australia can survive without "harnessing" some of its resources- the profits of which will go to some banker's coffins anyways. Nepal cannot survive without electricity, the benefits of which will go to all Nepalese; students can study under light, have access to the internet, hospitals won't have to stop working because of shutdowns, businesses etc. Can't believe I have to explain the benefits of electricity. Nepal has to bear the cost of hydropower; else the world has to come together in guaranteeing electricity (most of which will come from burning coal and fuel anyways) and loss of income to Nepal. Those are the only two options. I am glad that Australia has been so good at preserving its resources and culture. Too bad it had to wipe out the entire continent of its original people and culture but I am sure great works have been done to restore them.
beautiful documentary, gave me goosebumps in so many ways.. that made me one more more nepalese to understand the dark side of damming. I wish the dam may never get constructed.
Yeh, thats a scary river, but full of many amazing rapids too. Enjoy the class IV until you feel ready for class V. If it never comes it doesn't matter, kayaking is all about the fun whatever it comes from! cheers!
Beautiful doco.. it appears that yet another manmade catastrophe is impending. I’m in disbelief at the way we’re severing ourselves from the natural world
@@eddydewilde4958 what’s that got to do with the disaster we’re bringing upon ourselves? Or are you suggesting that it’s all part of the Divine plan..?
@@darksun3525 You are enjoying electricity, very easy to sit back and say others should not have it because it will dam the river. Think before you open you mouth.
I hope Government of Nepal and India will understand the risk behind the hydro- power project dams and will seriously consider it. Thank you for this video
Hallo from Germany/ I see you got an "Umlaut" oe / so I think you might be from close by.? We live in troubled times right now/ starting with the pandemie-lockdown/ now the war knocking on our door and energy--crisis-inflation piling up. But I think the worse is that dividing-energy filled with hate which splits us all apart. After we all unite and work together we my friend go down the river and com out better the before. Peace/ love & Gesundheit from Deutschland. Ps. I am not a religious person but I am trying to pray and I cant live without hope! Pps. great video!
"Danke" for the upload what a great journey and I bet you will get some spiritual energy and hopefully it will last your live time. Awesome > be humble and respectful! If I would be just 50 years younger. Take care and Shiva >> all the gods bless you and us too. Efing war knocking on our door and we just hope our brothers and sisters in the US will stick with us. Please dont vote for people like MTG & co. Peace/ love and Gesundheit from the old country. Please unite and lets work together!!
Good to read that you liked it. We just try to show whats happening over there, in a place that means so much to us. Thank you so much for your comment!
Wind turbines, perhaps ? Or smaller electricity generators you just put in the current when required would help... but Wow, dudes ! Epic adventure in wild Nepal ! You'd like Québec for kayaking. Salut, man !
As an Indian I feel ashamed, we are continuously destroying nature and biodiversity in our country( uttrakhand being an example) in the name of development, but now are crossing borders to do the same to other countries.
Greetings from Norway. Great video, great cause. Every country with similar water resources have the same challenge, up here in Scandinavia to. Not many untouched rivers left here in Norway. What a cruel and greedy race humans are.
@@mikelsarasola yes especially when in other countries like France they are considering demolishing some dams due to the long term environmental consequences..crackers to be building them when micro production through solar and wind has less environmental issues and new sodium ion battery tech coming online making storage cheaper and easier.
Government of Nepal didn't keep even one 8000+ peak virgin in search of evey penny and now they also want to dam all the rivers in the country. Karnali should remain wild.
Microbes that break down the sludge buildup at the foot of dams create methane as a byproduct. 20% is honestly an underestimate not to mention how much more potent of a greenhouse gas methane is.
Nepal has no source of energy apart from hydropower. Nepal has no other natural resources to sell. Being a landlocked nation, it has never been a trading nation. Until very recently, there used to be blackouts upto 20 hours a day. That in one of the least developed countries in the world. As Nepal is making progress, it needs energy. The only way it can get energy is through hydropower. Nepal with its hydropower dams probably has a minuscule carbon footprint compared to oil pumping, oil burning nations, most of which are westerns nations. Much lectures and hypocrisy. Anyways, what’s your solution? Nepal remain poor and in dark? Or are you going to guarantee energy for Nepal as well as the surplus income Nepal lost by not selling the excess energy?
i hope the Nepalese government shall not go ahead with destroying this beautiful river...We have seen what havoc and destruction do dams create (floods in China and the northern states of India)...hope that those who are rooting for the building of dams shall understand that
Looks like they care more about the money than any other thing... same shit happening all around. Thanks for your comment and I hope that this helps to open eyes and minds about this hazards.
When you are told that one thing is the only way to better your life, you just belive it. There are many ways to develop an area, some are more respectful to the land and communities and others more harmful. The associations trying to stop the construction of the dam just say that this macrodam is probably not what the valley needs to develop. This is a Sacred River and a corridor to the Kailash with a unique nature that will be destroyed by the dam construction. Properly developing turism by a Sacred Corridor, being respectful to the land, with smaller dams, together with solar panels could be more than enough and much heplful for the local communities. A macrodam is not renewvable energy source, it destroys the land and the nature, it is a barrie for the nature, generates metan emissions and in not many years will be full of river deposits that won't allow to generate as much energy. All the incomes generated by the dam will go to private hands and private companies, but the destruction of the valley will last forever. I think that there are many reasons to discuss the need of such a big destruction.
@@mikelsarasola Very good. I could not agree more. I live in a "tourism" "wilderness" area and tourism is the least destructive way, though it can get out of hand.
I don't know, I get a strong feeling of hipocrisy here ... condemminng Nepal's need for energy and their willingness to risk their nature for this when flying there for fun and coming from the west where, at least in Europe, nature like this doesn't even exist anymore for the exact same reason. They also want the wealth to say "hey I'd like to go on vacation to this foreign contry and go kayaking there" ... either all or none.
You are right. I'm sure they would also like to have the oportunity to travel as we do. But do you really thing that a huge dam will bring that kind of prosperity? Developing roads would help, building smaller dams together with solar panels will supply enough energy for the entire valley and the valleys around, and you wouldn't destroy all the nature and such special habitats. In Europe we now know that big dams just brought poverty to many valleys and communitites for the benefit of big companies and other interests. Now we have the technology and knowledge to do it better and we are removing many of these huge walls, but the habitats have already been damaged. In Nepal every river have already been dammed. You really think that they can't protect the Sacred River and develop the area in another way, bringing prosperity and a better future for their habitants? I know it is a hard debate, because there is not an easy solution. These countries have been hugely dammaged by foreign companies, and politics don't work as well as they would like (where does it really work?). But the associations behing the Karnali Valley protection are organized by local people. We just wanted to show the problem they are facing and give them a voice. Thanks for your comment!
The rather patronising MTF eco warrior seems a bit unnecessary . Surely the local people can speak for themselves by use of subtitles? Wild journey, wild river, beautiful mountains and people.
We just visit an area we really love, experience it and try to explain what is happening there. We talked to local people trying to show how they live and what they think about the current situation. They talk and we just subtitle what they say. They want a better lifestyle, and we hope they get it. They have been told that the dam will better their life... but we doubt about it, after seing what happened in other places around the world. Knowing the destruction of such an special places normally bring more poverty than prosperity, even more when most of the incomes will go to private hands and companies. How to develop the area without destroying it? Those are the big questions. Thanks for your comment!
I can't believe that editors continue to drown out the narrator with loud music. It seems to be an obsession as if the music were more important. Bye bye!!!
A small correction in video shiva is not destroyer He immerse all creatures of the universe in to him Destruction and immersion are two different words 🙏🙏🙏🙏
I would carry a kayak for free just for fun and going down the river even if it is just a small portion. Peace/ love & Gesundheit from Germany. Ps. go girl. Schools and education would be a thousand times better then any damn dam. I imagine all girls would get education to the max / all over the world and then we reverse the system>> let women rule this world before its too late. Pps. great video.
please file a petition , the work you are doing is of enormous help !
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing the beauty, adventure and importance of this cause.
Thanks! 🙏Good to see that you liked it!
Beautifully captured the essence of the life of the people; complimented with adventure/thrill of white-water kayaking and finished off with conservationist message. Peak Documenting!!!
Love to see that you liked it! Thanks!
Fantastic Video and well done on your achievements!! I have travelled a bit in Nepal and loved every minute , the most gentle and friendly people . My souvenir I treasure the most is a yak bell which will forever remain in my mind . The sound of the "Yak Trains" and herders, Sherpa's and guides.
I may get smashed by my next statement but I've seen similar in Africa where I live and Its easy for people to sit in their armchairs with their Tv's ,washing machines ,computers and jobs that earn big bucks and try to dictate to countries around the world on what they should and shouldn't do. Or a foreigner to visit places and try , as they would term it, help and assist without offering true workable alternatives to the betterment of local communities.
Thank you for your production and may the river flow in peace.
It’s peak hypocrisy. I have seen westerners saying that Nepal shouldn’t build roads to the villages near Annapurna circuit because it ruined their experience. I mean, seriously?
Regarding this documentary specifically, hydropower is the only source of energy for Nepal. Until recent projects, there used to be blackouts days and nights. How does a country progress without energy? Lectures usually come from people who are used to living in air conditioned rooms, driving big cars to transport a person and flushing clean drinking water down the toilet and whose source of energy is through burning fossil fuel.
@@induction7895 We have wild places in Australia that developers wanted to 'harness', but we stopped them. And it is not because we can afford to do so. Some wild places should remain so.
Did you even watch the whole doco, or pay attention to what they were saying? Hydro can be done on a small-scale local area without environmental impact.
But the planned Hydro is huge, will destroy cultural areas, cause extinction of species, will cause an increased carbon footprint, and will have most of the electricity going to India.
Now THAT is peak hypocrisy.
And besides, you chastise Alan for having the heart of a Nepali. But your talk is funny, because it seems like you are talking about yourself.
I do not think you can understand what this story tells.
@@Roger-go6jc I have lived in Nepal and in west. I have lived in 20 hours of blackouts in Nepal, studied under candles, and have done all those things that you do when you don't have energy. In 21st century. And compared to most Nepalese I am relatively privileged. Nepal doesn't have coal to burn unlike Australia. Australia gets 23000 MW of energy just by burning coal. 2000 MW of gas. Nepal hardly produces 500 MW of hydropower and is still struggling with blackouts. Talk about carbon footprint. What is small scale hydropower? A small run of the river project that produces 10 MW in monsoon? What will that do? Neither do such projects produce substantial energy nor will they run throughout the year as rivers dry up during winter and summer.
Australia can survive without "harnessing" some of its resources- the profits of which will go to some banker's coffins anyways. Nepal cannot survive without electricity, the benefits of which will go to all Nepalese; students can study under light, have access to the internet, hospitals won't have to stop working because of shutdowns, businesses etc. Can't believe I have to explain the benefits of electricity. Nepal has to bear the cost of hydropower; else the world has to come together in guaranteeing electricity (most of which will come from burning coal and fuel anyways) and loss of income to Nepal. Those are the only two options.
I am glad that Australia has been so good at preserving its resources and culture. Too bad it had to wipe out the entire continent of its original people and culture but I am sure great works have been done to restore them.
I was very lucky to have the chance to paddle some of the Karnali when I turned 50. some amazing people I was privileged to have met on my journey. 🙏
So excellent film! Thx a lot!
beautiful documentary, gave me goosebumps in so many ways..
that made me one more more nepalese to understand the dark side of damming. I wish the dam may never get constructed.
Ouch, this is full of sieves and undercuts. Deadly stuff. You guys are good. I think I'll stick to class IV. Great film!
Yeh, thats a scary river, but full of many amazing rapids too. Enjoy the class IV until you feel ready for class V. If it never comes it doesn't matter, kayaking is all about the fun whatever it comes from! cheers!
What a wonderful documentary with such a niche quality. Thank you for presenting this ❤️
Beautiful vedio .
Thank you soo much 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
Thanks for this great video about this cause 🙏
Thanks to you for your comment! We help in the way we think we can, but this river deserves much more. Cheers!
@@mikelsarasola i hope a better futur for this river !
Thank you and love from Nepal.
Beautiful doco..
it appears that yet another manmade catastrophe is impending. I’m in disbelief at the way we’re severing ourselves from the natural world
Don't forget you are typing on a computer, how did that come into existence and what is powering it?
@@eddydewilde4958 what’s that got to do with the disaster we’re bringing upon ourselves? Or are you suggesting that it’s all part of the Divine plan..?
@@darksun3525 You are enjoying electricity, very easy to sit back and say others should not have it because it will dam the river. Think before you open you mouth.
Nepal undoubtedly is a great travel destination for adventure tourism.
I hope Government of Nepal and India will understand the risk behind the hydro- power project dams and will seriously consider it. Thank you for this video
I hope it too. Thanks for your comment!
Save this beautiful river. It's the soul Nepal 🙏❤️
sure it is. All efforts have to go to saving it!
Hallo from Germany/ I see you got an "Umlaut" oe / so I think you might be from close by.? We live in troubled times right now/ starting with the pandemie-lockdown/ now the war knocking on our door and energy--crisis-inflation piling up. But I think the worse is that dividing-energy filled with hate which splits us all apart. After we all unite and work together we my friend go down the river and com out better the before. Peace/ love & Gesundheit from Deutschland. Ps. I am not a religious person but I am trying to pray and I cant live without hope! Pps. great video!
Very informative...hope karnali will remain in its natural form...
Thanks. I hope that together we can make it happen. Cheers!
AMAZING video! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Much love from Kathmandu ❤️💛💚🕉️
Thanks!!! ❤❤
Amazing. Thanks for bringing attention to this sad reality. We keep taking from the natural world but sooner or later it will be too much to ask.
"Danke" for the upload what a great journey and I bet you will get some spiritual energy and hopefully it will last your live time. Awesome > be humble and respectful! If I would be just 50 years younger. Take care and Shiva >> all the gods bless you and us too. Efing war knocking on our door and we just hope our brothers and sisters in the US will stick with us. Please dont vote for people like MTG & co. Peace/ love and Gesundheit from the old country. Please unite and lets work together!!
can your flipflops feel the altitude as well!? :)
Thank you for this beautiful & informative / educational video!
Good to read that you liked it. We just try to show whats happening over there, in a place that means so much to us. Thank you so much for your comment!
That was dope but the song at the end almost rivaled it in intensity and dopeness. Straight up.
I hope they don't build that damn dam!
yes, these kids are real artists! Thanks for your comment adn I hope that we can help for a better future for the area!
Amazing film ! Thanks !
thanks!
Wind turbines, perhaps ? Or smaller electricity generators you just put in the current when required would help... but Wow, dudes ! Epic adventure in wild Nepal ! You'd like Québec for kayaking. Salut, man !
I hope all Nepalese see this.
I hope it too. Thanks!
As an Indian I feel ashamed, we are continuously destroying nature and biodiversity in our country( uttrakhand being an example) in the name of development, but now are crossing borders to do the same to other countries.
Greetings from Norway. Great video, great cause.
Every country with similar water resources have the same challenge, up here in Scandinavia to. Not many untouched rivers left here in Norway. What a cruel and greedy race humans are.
Great content ❤️.
Thank you 🙌
Brilliant. Save the Karnali. Tragic to build a dam on it in so many ways.
It is crazy that politicians still think that a huge dam like this can be a good option...
@@mikelsarasola yes especially when in other countries like France they are considering demolishing some dams due to the long term environmental consequences..crackers to be building them when micro production through solar and wind has less environmental issues and new sodium ion battery tech coming online making storage cheaper and easier.
Lovely 😍
Thank you for this film. is the website correct? doesnt seem to work. 🙏
Amazing
Very good video, what year was this descent?
It was in 2018. Some years already... but the dam not made yet, so there is still hope. Cheers!
@@mikelsarasola that's very good news!!
Kids singing and dancing is an golden end 👌
You seem like a good guy and I hope most of your wishes com true. I will sub. Take care.
Thanks man, same for you! 😘😘
Enjoyable documentary, congratulations to all involved for reaching their goal. I didn't understand how dams produce methane gas?(@1.10)
Thanks for your comment Eddy! Methane is produced by the decomposition or putrefaction of organic matter
Great stuff!!
thanks!
Uyti ramro potential vayeko Thau raixa tra no electricity no road facility
there should be a petition about this.
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great wpork
Thanks!!❤
Government of Nepal didn't keep even one 8000+ peak virgin in search of evey penny and now they also want to dam all the rivers in the country. Karnali should remain wild.
Great video but I don't think hydropower emits 20% of methane let alone all emissions.
Microbes that break down the sludge buildup at the foot of dams create methane as a byproduct. 20% is honestly an underestimate not to mention how much more potent of a greenhouse gas methane is.
@@EricSmith-wx3hq do you know how many tons of methane commercial shipping, manufacturing, and cars produce a year. It's an unfathomable amount
@@Theosmith2 they produce CO2 not methane
@Eric Smith they often produce both, many industrial and manufacturing processes have methane byproducts
On methane let’s ask the cows how much they produce.
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Gracias.
Gracias a ti!
Naive americans thinks they know the hard life of Humla just visiting for some times.
Anyway the documentation was good.
Humans : "A virus that wears shoes"
Great description!
Nepal has no source of energy apart from hydropower. Nepal has no other natural resources to sell. Being a landlocked nation, it has never been a trading nation.
Until very recently, there used to be blackouts upto 20 hours a day. That in one of the least developed countries in the world.
As Nepal is making progress, it needs energy. The only way it can get energy is through hydropower.
Nepal with its hydropower dams probably has a minuscule carbon footprint compared to oil pumping, oil burning nations, most of which are westerns nations. Much lectures and hypocrisy.
Anyways, what’s your solution? Nepal remain poor and in dark? Or are you going to guarantee energy for Nepal as well as the surplus income Nepal lost by not selling the excess energy?
i hope the Nepalese government shall not go ahead with destroying this beautiful river...We have seen what havoc and destruction do dams create (floods in China and the northern states of India)...hope that those who are rooting for the building of dams shall understand that
Looks like they care more about the money than any other thing... same shit happening all around. Thanks for your comment and I hope that this helps to open eyes and minds about this hazards.
Kirat’s Father(Ancestor)bt Hindu’s God related with 2oldests Religions…💚☮️
How can the river be saved if the locals desire a dam?
When you are told that one thing is the only way to better your life, you just belive it. There are many ways to develop an area, some are more respectful to the land and communities and others more harmful. The associations trying to stop the construction of the dam just say that this macrodam is probably not what the valley needs to develop. This is a Sacred River and a corridor to the Kailash with a unique nature that will be destroyed by the dam construction. Properly developing turism by a Sacred Corridor, being respectful to the land, with smaller dams, together with solar panels could be more than enough and much heplful for the local communities.
A macrodam is not renewvable energy source, it destroys the land and the nature, it is a barrie for the nature, generates metan emissions and in not many years will be full of river deposits that won't allow to generate as much energy. All the incomes generated by the dam will go to private hands and private companies, but the destruction of the valley will last forever. I think that there are many reasons to discuss the need of such a big destruction.
@@mikelsarasola Very good. I could not agree more. I live in a "tourism" "wilderness" area and tourism is the least destructive way, though it can get out of hand.
@@mikelsarasolaNepal has insignificant carbon footprint. It’s the western countries that needs to be more responsible.
I don't know, I get a strong feeling of hipocrisy here ... condemminng Nepal's need for energy and their willingness to risk their nature for this when flying there for fun and coming from the west where, at least in Europe, nature like this doesn't even exist anymore for the exact same reason. They also want the wealth to say "hey I'd like to go on vacation to this foreign contry and go kayaking there" ... either all or none.
You are right. I'm sure they would also like to have the oportunity to travel as we do. But do you really thing that a huge dam will bring that kind of prosperity? Developing roads would help, building smaller dams together with solar panels will supply enough energy for the entire valley and the valleys around, and you wouldn't destroy all the nature and such special habitats. In Europe we now know that big dams just brought poverty to many valleys and communitites for the benefit of big companies and other interests.
Now we have the technology and knowledge to do it better and we are removing many of these huge walls, but the habitats have already been damaged.
In Nepal every river have already been dammed. You really think that they can't protect the Sacred River and develop the area in another way, bringing prosperity and a better future for their habitants?
I know it is a hard debate, because there is not an easy solution. These countries have been hugely dammaged by foreign companies, and politics don't work as well as they would like (where does it really work?). But the associations behing the Karnali Valley protection are organized by local people. We just wanted to show the problem they are facing and give them a voice.
Thanks for your comment!
genial, buena pelicula 🤙
Muchas gracias!
respect nature and we will live peace fully or we gonna leave forcefully by nature
Walking up 90KM? FUCK!!!! 5:14
The rather patronising MTF eco warrior seems a bit unnecessary . Surely the local people can speak for themselves by use of subtitles? Wild journey, wild river, beautiful mountains and people.
We just visit an area we really love, experience it and try to explain what is happening there. We talked to local people trying to show how they live and what they think about the current situation. They talk and we just subtitle what they say. They want a better lifestyle, and we hope they get it. They have been told that the dam will better their life... but we doubt about it, after seing what happened in other places around the world. Knowing the destruction of such an special places normally bring more poverty than prosperity, even more when most of the incomes will go to private hands and companies. How to develop the area without destroying it? Those are the big questions.
Thanks for your comment!
I can't believe that editors continue to drown out the narrator with loud music. It seems to be an obsession as if the music were more important. Bye bye!!!
Sorry man, my fault. Will try to do it better next time. Thanks for your comment!
@@mikelsarasola Thank you,
wow
A small correction in video shiva is not destroyer
He immerse all creatures of the universe in to him
Destruction and immersion are two different words 🙏🙏🙏🙏
The local people are poor and they are willing to carry a kayak for kilometers for any $
I would carry a kayak for free just for fun and going down the river even if it is just a small portion. Peace/ love & Gesundheit from Germany. Ps. go girl. Schools and education would be a thousand times better then any damn dam. I imagine all girls would get education to the max / all over the world and then we reverse the system>> let women rule this world before its too late. Pps. great video.
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Terrible Disturbing guitar "music" that is Not "belonging here" 👎
Thanks for your comment 😘
@@mikelsarasola I love everything about your video especially your replies.
@@christophlieding734 haha, good to read that 😆